Are underway for the 2nd straight day protesters angry at new tax proposals which they say they cannot afford because theyre already struggling to made by sick needs its the 2nd wife of nationwide protests this month with some now calling for the fall of the regime the protests come amid a worsening economic crisis in lebanon which many blame on the small number of sectarian politicians who ruled the country since its a 15 year civil war came to an end in 9090 both kuwait and egypt have warned this citizens to stay away from the process brian has moved. Anger and frustration boiling over and lebanons capital beirut. Security forces fired tear gas and water cannon on crowds demanding the government resign. Such these protesters say they cant take anymore that years of economic failure have left them struggling to survive. I said it was im sad let me tell you at the end of the day if i stay hidden behind social media and i dont go out into the streets how can i dare ask for my rights whe
To go by that sentencing has not calmed down the mass of a Spanish Government would have it anything that close emotions to become even more empowered over this issue. Well still ahead on al jazeera in a critical state wide medics in a pakistani province so ugly doing it birgitte cia operations and houston we had history its one small step for women as the 1st all female spy school is carried out International Spy stuff. Hello again its a fairly quiet picture across much of central asia we have got some cloud is mainstreaming east was in the last few hours the coastal areas saying fine and dry a pole that is from coastal areas all the vietnam a fairly strong on shore flow so more of those shells but theyre not as heavy as we have seen it this past week that final south a day by sunday we do see more rain into Central China particular cross into with sichuan and also doing a special push on into gives you province as well but 24 celsius in shanghai some good sunshine and also a dry week
Live from the cbs bay area studios. This is kpix5 news. Now at noon. Pg es top brass expected to answer to state regulators. They want to know how last weeks mass power shutoff started and more. Im kenny choi. They called for the emergency meeting last night. Kpix 5 jackie ward on the tough questions pg e is about to face. Reporter in less than an hour the top executives will face some tough questions from the states Public Utilities commission. Some are happy about it. I think the Public Utilities commission is just as disgusted with pg e as everyone else is. Reporter she said while she is pleased with the puc calling this meeting, she is skeptical. The Public Utilities commission authorized the program that turned into such an user debacle. Obviously, the commission needs to hold pg e more accountable and impose stricker standards on the company. Reporter they called the power shut off an unacceptable situation that never should be repeated. It forced businesses and schools to close.
Patriotic slogans and lots of boys on scooters just kind of really taking this chance to take over the streets and theres you know just droves and droves of scooters young young people who really dont have a part in this government this country who dont have jobs who dont have education who are just fed up with the very miserable state of affairs in this country very hard living on without electricity without water with constant pollution without with now theyre raising taxes people are feeling very squeezed and this thing with the whatsapp putting a tax on whatsapp was kind of the last straw because. People whats up with the only thing working in the country some people say was one of the few things that you know poor kids and regular folks in lebanon you know rely on for their entertainment or their communication and so you know the government is seen as really overstepping and speaking of the government as we wait for the Prime Minister to come out and speak there are some demonstra
In washington really thinks that erdogan was going to go put it on harms way american troops which had been keeping their presence there very small contingent had been keeping this from happening so the president obviously feeling defensive but you just saw him there and over the last couple of days hes been trying to create this narrative and he came out he said with the cease fire pause he said its a great day for civilization i solved it sounded as if he thought he had solved the conflict between the turks between turkey and the kurds obviously thats not what this does and weve seen a lot of criticism people coming out and saying what the president did twice now is he told to turkey to involve it to go after the kurds and theyre saying that was a slap in the face of the kurds and theyre saying that he did it again with this agreement to the cease fire basically giving turkey everything they want so a couple of things in that brief roundtable with the media i think its important to p